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Written by a leading scholar,Seventeenth Century Art: Architecture, 2/eis the only text on the market that introduces students to the three major art forms-painting, sculpture and architecture, across six countries. The text engagingly and effectively combines analytical discussions with an expansive collection of vivid, illuminating illustrations that teach students the major developments of art, painting, and architecture that emerged from seventeenth-century Western Europe, as well as the socio-political and cultural background of the period.

Ann Sutherland Harris is Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Preface

Introduction

Politics, Religion, and Art

The Economics of Art

Geography, Cosmology, and Astronomy

Concepts of the Body, Ancient and Modern

Education and Literacy

Artists' Changing Status and Training

New Subjects, New Genres

Transforming the Renaissance and "Baroque" Art

Italy

The Decline of Mannerism

Architecture and City Planning in Rome Bolognese Painting: the Carracci Reform Painting in Rome

Annibale Carracci in Rome Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Caravaggio's Italian Followers

The Carracci Succession in Rome and Bologna

Architecture and City Planning in Rome Italian Sculpture

Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Early Career

Bernini, Algardi, and the Portrait Bust

The Competition: Alessandro Algardi and Francesco Duquesnoy

Bernini and Urban VIII

Algardi and Bernini during the Papacy of Innocent X

Painting in Rome

Pietro da Cortona

Andrea Sacchi

Pietro da Cortona in Florence and Rome

Carlo Maratta

Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio)

Painting in Naples

Flanders

Peter Paul Rubens

Rubens in Italy, 1600-1608

Rubens in Antwerp, 1609-1622

Rubens, Diplomat and Artist, 1622-1630

Rubens's Last Decade, 1630-1640

Anthony van Dyck

Van Dyck in England and Italy, 1621-1627

Van Dyck's Second Antwerp Period, 1627-1632

Van Dyck in England, 1632-1641

Jacob Jordaens

Still-Life and Genre Painters

Spain

Spanish Architecture Spanish Sculpture

Spanish Painting, 1600-1650

Jusepe de Ribera

Francisco de Zurbaran

Diego Velazquez in Seville

Velazquez in Madrid, 1623-1648

Velazquez in Italy, 1648-1651

Velazquez in Madrid, 1651-1660

Spanish Painting, 1650-1700

Bartolome Esteban Murillo

Juan de Valdes Leal and Claudio Coello

France

Architecture and City Planning

Paris: The Pont-Neuf, Places Dauphine and Royale and the Palais du Luxembourg